[cups.development] notifiers and subscriptions

[Michael Sweet]

Jerome Alet wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:55:09AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
>>> does this mean that a particular notifier is launched a single time and 
>>> will remain launched to process all the events until CUPS is stopped
>>> or the subscription is deleted ?
>> Yes, or if the notifier crashes or exits.
>>
>>> at first glance I thought a notifier was launched each time a new
>>> event appeared, processed a single event and exited.
>> No, a notifier is normally active for the life of the subscription,
>> starting with the first event.  The notifier may implement a timeout
>> which causes it to exit early, and cupsd will automatically restart
>> the notifier as needed.
> 
> Then I think I've found something which looks like a bug :
> ...
> Then from the web interface I deleted the printer.
> 
> Then CUPS was unable to restart the notifier.

Please file a STR on this...

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